Unexpected obstacles Crossword Clue

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Hint 1: Clue Definition

UNEXPECTED (adjective)
1. not expected or anticipated

More Universal Crossword (12/2/2025) Answers

Across

1. Knights' counterparts

6. Columns' counterparts

10. Actress Neuwirth

14. Public relations concern

15. Name that anagrams to "nose"

16. Tablet with a mini variety

17. *S-shaped hairstyle (In this clue's answer, note the first two and last two letters)

19. TV host Gayle who went to space in 2025

20. Old Hollywood dancer Fred

21. ___ eater

22. Well-suited

24. Other, in Spanish

25. Novelist Fleming

26. Thought-provoking

28. *Intrinsically motivated (... the first two and last three letters)

33. Dorky sort

35. Onion relative

36. Blvd. relative

37. Certain Scout

40. Pot brownies, e.g.

42. Gorilla or chimpanzee

45. Lounge around the house, say

47. Mock

48. *"Great job!" (... the first two and last two letters)

52. Response to 'Shall we?'

53. Morning ___ (flowering plant)

54. Boaster's retort, maybe

58. Figure skater Lipinski

59. Decorative pond fish

62. Singer/activist Yoko

63. Miscellaneous things ... and what the indicated letters in the starred clues' answers are?

66. Sleep cycle

67. Immediately

68. “Come On ___” (Dexys Midnight Runners song)

69. Weep

70. Big brass instrument

71. Most arid

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Down

1. Whats the __?: So what?

2. French "friend"

3. Dugong relative

4. Omelet ingredients

5. Deal with

6. Update, as an electrical system

7. Winning again and again

8. Worked on a loom

9. Opposite of NNW

10. Two-piece swimsuit

11. Massive in scale

12. Place to deposit money

13. Risqué

18. Dang it!

21. “Sit down!”

22. Tack on

23. Church bench

25. Carded

27. Cribbage piece

29. ATM ___

30. Worth

31. Occasion

32. Tree houses

34. Nanny's partner on a farm

38. Singer Orbison

39. Young chaps

41. Island near Java

42. Director Lee

43. Lager variety

44. Class of seating on an airplane

46. Place to get a pedicure

49. Section of a timeline

50. March Madness org.

51. Raked in

55. Lowest point

57. SoCal school for the Aztecs

59. Patella's joint

60. Poems by Horace

61. "That ___ funny!"

62. Tolkien menace

64. Bit of lotion

65. Director Roth

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